Mechanical troubles with your bike? Call for roadside assistance

Pablo Martinez Monsivais/APNeed a lift for your bike? Call AAA or Better World auto clubs. This one was snowed in in D.C.Bicycles and their riders can qualify for roadside assistance, either through their auto club memberships or a new bike rental program.

Nationally, two cycling industry innovators have joined forces to offer
free roadside assistance for rental bikes in 200 U.S. and Canadian
cities, including Portland, Bend and Redmond in Oregon.

RentaBikeNow.com helps
travelers find and reserve rental bicycles online through hundreds of
participating bike shops. Now, those rentals of a day or more include
the peace-of-mind that help is only a phone call away. This help is
powered by the Better World Club, a North American roadside assistance company.

The
coverage provides roadside rescue due to mechanical issues with rented
equipment, such as a flat tire, and includes transportation for bike
and rider back to the bike shop or hotel within 30 miles.

The Better World Club began offering nationwide roadside assistance
policies for cyclists in 2002, but the option had not been available to
individual bicycle renters until now.

AAA Plus membership provides bicycle transportation service for the
member whose bicycle is disabled. Service is provided to any point of
safety within a 25-mile radius of the bicycle breakdown. It applies to
all bicycles and tandems, including rental bicycles. It is available
within the AAA Oregon/Idaho coverage area, which
includes Oregon and the southern 34 counties of Idaho.